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How to Unfreeze a Bank Account Attached for Income Tax Dues

Income Tax : Income-tax attachments can halt business and personal finances. Relief depends on identifying the correct legal trigger and pursui...

February 1, 2026 2781 Views 0 comment Print

Why Outstanding Income Tax Demand Emails Are Reaching Taxpayers Now

Income Tax : The tax department has begun emailing taxpayers about pending demands shown on the portal. This explains why such demands exist an...

January 22, 2026 1473 Views 0 comment Print

Issue of Old Income-tax Demands Appearing on Portal After Several Years

Income Tax : Taxpayers are facing revival of decades-old demands without prior notice or service of orders. The key takeaway is that such deman...

January 14, 2026 8646 Views 0 comment Print

Proposal for Introduction of a Scheme to Address Pending Tax Demands of Earlier Years

Income Tax : Explore the proposed scheme for resolving unresolved tax demands, easing taxpayer burdens, and improving compliance through fair, ...

January 13, 2025 1809 Views 0 comment Print

Rupees 43 trillion Income Tax Demands to Make India Richer and Indians Poor

Income Tax : Faceless assessments in FY 23-24 raised Rs 43 trillion in tax arrears, sparking concern over the impact on India's tax ecosystem a...

August 22, 2024 11922 Views 3 comments Print


Latest News


Representation on adjustments (over & above 20% of disputed demand) by CPC

Income Tax : KSCAA Representation regarding adjustments (over and above 20% of disputed demand) by CPC despite assessments pending before first...

September 4, 2023 3171 Views 0 comment Print

Representation on Income Tax outstanding demand collection drive

Income Tax : Grievances and suggestions with respect to the functioning of Demand Facilitation Center, CPC (DFC) in connection to the outstandi...

September 20, 2022 30540 Views 3 comments Print

Response to outstanding Income Tax Demand

Income Tax : The Taxpayer can submit the response online to the outstanding demand by performing the below steps. 1. Go to the Income Tax e-Fil...

January 14, 2021 6099 Views 0 comment Print

CBDT prioritise Vivad Se Vishwas Scheme case of demand & Refund

Income Tax : CBDT  desires that all the work related to cleaning up of the tax demands and calculating the tax payable or refundable in respec...

July 9, 2020 2973 Views 0 comment Print

Verify online notice of Demand/order issued by Income Tax Department

Income Tax : Verify online notice/order issued by the Income Tax Department Now Taxpayer can verify notice/order issued by the Income Tax Depar...

July 2, 2020 2706 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Judiciary


Madras High Court Bars Attachment of Pension for Income Tax Recovery

Income Tax : Read the full text of the judgment from Madras High Court on G.K. Reddy's case against DCIT. Court rules pension cannot be attache...

January 18, 2024 1854 Views 0 comment Print

No stay was granted for Income Tax demand during pendency of appeal before CIT

Income Tax : Assessee had not been able to make out a prima facie case in its favour and had a ‘lot to answer’ in the appeal. Assessee's pl...

December 20, 2023 3381 Views 0 comment Print

Delhi HC directs refund of Income Tax amount exceeding 20% of demand

Income Tax : Delhi HC directs refund of Income Tax amount exceeding 20% of the demand. Read about the Max Life Insurance case and the decision ...

August 21, 2023 2148 Views 0 comment Print

Wrong mention of TAN in TDS deposit challan – ITAT allows relief

Income Tax : ITAT reversed the demand under Section 200A attributable to merely wrong mention of TAN in the TDS deposit challan...

January 20, 2023 2220 Views 0 comment Print

Withholding of refund against demand payable for earlier years justified

Income Tax : Uptill AY 2016-17, if a scrutiny notice u/s 143(2) is issued, the return is not required to be processed u/s 143(1) for grant of r...

May 5, 2020 4581 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Notifications


Changes to Response Mechanism for Outstanding Demands in Income Tax

Income Tax : Instruction No. 01 of 2023 by Directorate of Income Tax (Systems), exploring implications for income tax payers and their response...

May 31, 2023 11727 Views 0 comment Print

Income Tax demand Notice due to Tax credit mismatch against Army Officers

Income Tax : ADVISORY NO.: 45 Dated:- 14.07.2022 0/o PCDA(0) Pune, Public Relation office (PRO) Subject: Income Tax Demand Notice under section...

July 14, 2022 7014 Views 3 comments Print

CBDT revises guidelines for intrusive or coercive tax recovery

Income Tax : Corrigendum to Order under section 119 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 dated 16.10.2020 for exercising power of intrusive or coercive ...

October 19, 2020 9324 Views 0 comment Print

Functionality for Demand Adjustment u/s 245 by AO in ITBA

Income Tax : The functionality of demand adjustment by AO u/s 245 can be accessed while passing assessment order, rectification order into the ...

February 19, 2020 5508 Views 0 comment Print

Disposal of cases having tax effect more than Rs. 50 Cr.

Income Tax : As per the Central Action Plan issued for the F.Y. 2017-18, all pending appeals having tax effect of Rs. 50 crore or more are to ...

October 12, 2017 915 Views 0 comment Print


Google Case: No stay on demand on the ground of Appeal Filing

November 7, 2017 2115 Views 0 comment Print

M/s. Google India Pvt. Ltd. Vs DCIT (ITAT Bangalore) The present stay petition is filed seeking further extension of the stay of demand. Admittedly there is change of the circumstances from the first stay order, since this Tribunal had disposed of the appeal involving identical issue for earlier years against the assessee. Therefore, the principle […]

Penalty U/s. 221(1) for default in payment of demand cannot exceed tax amount

November 5, 2017 72303 Views 0 comment Print

On reading the provisions of section 221 conjointly with the definition of “tax” as detailed under section 2(43), the irresistible conclusion that can be drawn is that the phraseology tax in arrears as envisaged in section 221 of the Act would not take within its realm the interest component.

Disposal of cases having tax effect more than Rs. 50 Cr.

October 12, 2017 915 Views 0 comment Print

As per the Central Action Plan issued for the F.Y. 2017-18, all pending appeals having tax effect of Rs. 50 crore or more are to be dispose of up to 31st December, 2017 as mentioned at Para (i) of Action Plan of chapter-III of the Central Action Plan which is reproduced as under: –

Stay Application: No necessity to pre-deposit 15% of disputed demand

April 30, 2017 11025 Views 0 comment Print

High Court held that Considering the Office Memorandum F. No. 404/72/93- ITCC dated 29thFebruary 2016 as a whole, there is no such requirement of pre-deposit of 15% of the disputed demand either at the time of submitting stay application or before the stay application of the assessee is considered on merits.

AO can adjust only 15% of demand against refund in stay application

March 30, 2017 6618 Views 0 comment Print

Rule made returnable forthwith. The learned Counsel for the respondent, waives service. Heard finally by consent of parties. The petitioner is a Company engaged in the business of manufacturing base station antennas, microwave antennas, R.F. cables, jumpers and connectors and trading in related products.

Unsatisfactory Income Tax recovery from arrears and current demand

March 17, 2017 2433 Views 0 comment Print

On review of the position of collection out of arrear and current demand as on 28.02.2017, it is noted that the performance of the Department as a whole and of almost all Pr. CCIT Regions individually is much below the targets given in the Central Action Plan 2016-17.

High Pitched Assessment: AO/CIT cannot straightaway demand 15% payment

February 23, 2017 8151 Views 0 comment Print

Undoubtedly, the present case raises the issue of balancing the interest of the Revenue, and the interest of an Needless to say, the Revenue does have the right to realise the assessed incometax amount from the assessee. However, while trying to realise the said amount, the Revenue cannot be permitted, and has not been permitted by the Circulars mentioned above, to act like a Shylock.

Step up efforts to recover outstanding demand- CBDT

December 19, 2016 1363 Views 0 comment Print

It may be pointed out that the target of cash collection from arrear demand was fixed very modestly at Rs.53,981 crore in the Central Action Plan for 2016-17 as against very large amount of arrears outstanding. However. till the end of November, 2016

Pay IT dues in advance at RBI or at authorised bank branches

November 2, 2016 2579 Views 2 comments Print

Reserve Bank of India has appealed to income tax assessees to remit their income tax dues sufficiently in advance of the due date.

Refund of Excess amount paid- Dispute Resolution Scheme, 2016

July 21, 2016 25587 Views 1 comment Print

The Dispute Resolution Scheme, 2016 has been introduced through Union Budget, 2016. The scheme has been brought with the object to collect tax arrears, clear pendency of appeals, achieve reduction in administrative costs etc. In most of the cases apart from filing appeal, the demand amount, either partly or fully, is generally deposited by the assesses.

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